Could Your Town Host a Gigafab?

Domestic clean energy manufacturers have already begun announcing significant increases in US production capacity as a result of Joe Biden’s ambitious Inflation Reduction Act. The challenge of site selection for this increased number of production lines will now be center stage. CEA’s Mark Hagedorn looks at the qualities that make for the perfect gigafactory site.

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Cell Cracking: The Invisible Performance Thief

In this pv magazine Webinar, Claire Kearns-McCoy, Engineering Services Manager at CEA, takes us through the risks posed by undetected microcracks in a PV module, including how the problem can develop during the module lifecycle, and the challenges of proving the origin of a performance damaging crack in order for warranty or insurance claims to pay out.

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Mining for Gold in Legacy PPAs

As the pace of solar installations quickens, developers are racing to find the best remaining sites and optimize their position in interconnection queues. But what if the best investment opportunity is hidden in a site built a decade or more ago? CEA’s Chris Chappell and Stephen Shirey examine what can be done to unlock the value in legacy solar sites.

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